Research Catalog

Title

Music and gender : perspectives from the Mediterranean / edited by Tullia Magrini.

Publication

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2003.

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Additional Authors

Magrini, Tullia.

Description

viii, 371 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Chicago studies in ethnomusicology

Uniform Title

Chicago studies in ethnomusicology.

Subject

• Ethnomusicology > Mediterranean Region
• Gender identity in music
• Music > Mediterranean Region > History and criticism
• Women musicians > Mediterranean Region

Note

• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Studying gender in Mediterranean musical cultures / T. Magrini -- A man's game? Engendered song and the changing dynamics of musical activity in Corsica / C. Bithell -- Body and voice : the construction of gender in flamenco / J. Labajo -- Those "other women" : dance and femininity among Prespa Albanians / J. C. Sugarman -- The gender of the profession : music, dance, and reputation among Balkan muslim Rom women / C. Silverman -- Come into play : dance, music, and gender in three Calabrian festivals / G. Plastino -- The female dervish and other shady ladies of the Rebetika / G. Holst-Warhaft -- Archivists of memory : written folksong collections of twentieth-century Sephardi women / E. Seroussi -- Representations and female roles in the Raï song / M. Virolle -- Poetry as a strategy of power : the case of Riffian Berber women / T.B. Joseph -- Nashat : the gender of musical celebration in Morocco / D. Kapchan -- On religion, gender, and performing : female performers and repentance in Egypt / K. van Nieuwkerk -- Male, female, and beyond in the culture and music of Roma in Kosovo / S. Pettan -- The tearful public sphere : Turkey's "Sun of art," Zeki Müren / M. Stokes -- "And she sang a new song" : gender and music on the sacred landscapes of the Mediterranean / P.V. Bohlman.

ISBN

0226501663 (pbk : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2002151281

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library